DESIGN ? DIY Polaroid Flower Vase!
2009-11-18 20:24:00 Check out this awesome design, a DIY Polaroid Flower Vase for small plants and alike. (via greenmuze) Designer’s Website Brought to you by: Zedomax.com DESIGN – DIY Polaroid Flower Vase! Crafts, Design, Design, DIY, DIY, flower, Gardening, polaroid, Projects, vase Related posts Flower DIY – How to Make a “Steel” Flower! DIY – Amphibious Houses Zoombak GPS Tracking Device! Znak It! ...
Lawn DIY ? How to Make an RC Lawnmower!
2009-11-15 19:46:00 Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a rather interesting hack that involves a regular lawnmower converted into an RC lawnmower. Brilliant! This should make lawnmowing much more fun. Better yet, your kids will have a blast cutting the lawn. This instructable will show you how to make ...
Review: Container Gardens 50 Recipes for Year-Round Gardening
2009-11-11 04:17:00 Last week a representative from Crown Publishing Group - Random House, Inc. offered to send me Container Gardens: 50 Recipes for Year-Round Gardening by P. Allen Smith to review. Since I try to include ideas for container gardening on this blog because many Chicagoans live in apartments or small spaces I agreed to take a look. What I thought was a small book on container gardens turned out to be a collection of container garden ideas printed (both sides) on tabbed cards that you can take with you to the garden center or nursery when picking out plants for your container gardens....
Lawn Mower DIY ? How to Diagnose/Repair a Lawn Mower!
2009-11-10 10:08:00 For those of you with a lawn mower, you might want to note this great DIY that shows you how to diagnose/repair a lawn mower and its engine parts. I think this can be a great reference in the future if your lawn mower breaks down for some reason. Of course, don’t forget to check ...
Garden DIY ? How to Make a Winter Indoor Herb Garden!
2009-10-21 01:59:00 Winter is at our doorsteps and you don’t have to be sad that you can no longer grow your herbs outdoors, simply learn how to make winter indoor herb garden in the comfort of your home instead! – via keetsa Indoor winter herb gardens make it possible to enjoy fresh herbs year round. These herbs can ...
Urban Gardening Classes in Chicago Fall '09
2009-10-17 22:07:00 The Wicker Park Garden Club is hosting a number of lectures and workshops this fall and winter for those interested in learning about urban gardening. You can attend these in place of the urban farming classes around Chicago this fall if your interests in gardening don't extend to growing your own food.November 2nd 7-8:30 PMMidwestern Designers: Landscaping with Nature.December 7th 7-8:30 PMLandscape and Eco/PsychologyJanuary 11 7-8:30 PMDesigning a Native Landscape: How to Dispel Misconceptions & Avoid MisuseJanuary 16 10am-NoonPropagating Plants from Seeds and CuttingsThese lectures and workshops are held at the Wicker Park Field House - 1425 N. Damen. For more information about class fees visit WPGarden.org....
Weekend Gardening Chores
2009-10-09 23:42:00 Like always I'm waiting until it is really late in the season to start on my fall gardening chores. This weekend I plan to tackle several of them and get them out of the way. Today I'm bringing in my houseplants that are still outside, if you live in an outlying suburb of Chicago there is a frost warning, get your houseplants in before they are killed by the frost.The last of my peppers have been harvested today and with great sadness I've tossed the plants in the compost pile even though many of them are trying to set fruit and grow new leaves. Times like this that I wish I had a greenhouse or more precious window space. I'm...
Flower DIY ? How to Make a ?Steel? Flower!
2009-10-09 22:20:00 Okay, I really admit it this time, the only flowers I can really maintain are those low-maintenance cactus, which I have one on my desk right now. (and it’s still ALIVE!) For those of you who have hard time maintaining a “real” garden, you might want to try the alternatives (like me cactus) or learn how ...
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Chicagoland Gardening Magazine ISO Young Gardeners
2009-09-17 22:29:00 Are you interested in gardening and under 35? If you found an Ed Hardy t-shirt in your closet would you throw it in a compost bin before ever wearing it?* Do you and your friends use around buzzwords like "sustainability?"If you answered yes, then ChicagoLand Gardening magazine wants to talk to you. They're conducting a 35 and Under Garden Focus Group to help direct the magazine and garden dialogue in Chicagoland. You'll discuss edible gardening, ecology, sustainability, environmentalism.When: Saturday, October 17, 2009. A second meeting takes place in April of 2010.Time: 9:30 a.m to noon.Location: Chicagoland Magazine's Office. 915 Parkview BLVD., Lombard, IL 60148 (near I-355 and I-88)To volunteer for the Garden Focus Group send an Email with your Name,...
Wal-Mart Would 'Rollback' Cost of Gardening in Chatham
2009-08-04 00:38:00 I love Chicago's garden centers as much as the next gardener, but they are too far away from where I live to make shopping there convenient. As nice as they are the prices n. As much as I would like to support these independent garden centers it really isn't within my budget to do so all the time, especially in this economy. There is always mail order nurseries, but for residents of communities where check cashing places outnumber banks, and even grocery stores, that isn't really an option, either....
Butterfly Gardening
2009-07-07 05:01:00 Gardening for butterflies is a lot different than gardening to attract bees to your garden in Chicago. Butterflies need two kinds of plants; host plants that butterflies can lay eggs on and the caterpillars can eat on and nectar plants that butterflies can feed upon. To be honest, I never set out to attract butterflies to my garden, we both just happen to like the same kinds of plants. The following is a list of plants that I've noticed attract a lot of butterflies into my garden in Chicago....
Raised Bed Gardening
2009-07-06 22:03:00 This year I've been seeing examples of raised beds all over Chicago that make me wish I would have created raised beds when I started my garden. Instead of digging through hard clay to try to create a hospitable area for plants I could have built a few raised beds and saved myself some back breaking digging. While you usually see raised beds in vegetable gardens that can be used to grow ornamental plants too....
Indoor Gardening Flipped: The Sky Planter
2009-06-25 23:07:00 Patrick Morris has turned indoor gardening on its head with his revolutionary Sky Planter design, which allows plants to literally grow upside down.
Is this about gardening? Or politics? You decide.
2009-04-24 17:00:00 Everytime I turn around there's some new threat to what will eventually be my beautiful yard full of trees and bushes and perennial flowers. The latest aggressor? Bambi. Thanks a lot, cute little fawns.We live right near the "Pheasant Branch Preserve," which is great for jogging and walking and nature and junk, but not so great if you don't want a bunch of wildlife wrecking your yard. Between the raccoons that used to live in our shed and eat our roof and the fox that hunted on our front porch, I thought I'd seen it all when it came to animals. But now there's deer eating our plants and ravaging them -- plants that I spent nearly two bucks on. These deer are getting in the way of increasing my property values, which is in turn hampering the economic recovery, so it's clear that the fate of all of America rests in the hands of:Deer Off.Deer Off is the deer repellent I found to use in our yard. I had gone to a site to learn about deer control and see what information I c...
The Triangle Is Complete
2009-03-24 01:30:00 I am now happy to report that the FaceBook Twitter WordPress triangle is complete. It appears that the Twitter Updater is now functioning. This issue was rather peculiar in that for anyone with a FaceBook ID over a certain value the application simply did not function. This has been corrected ...
Organic, Urban Vegetable Gardening For Dummies
2009-02-11 12:00:00 For many people who live in a city but have agricultural roots, creating an urban garden or farm can be the best way to get that rural nostalgia back without ever having to leave the city. You don't need a green thumb to get organic produce right from your own backyard. My Farm creates and maintains organic urban gardens in the backyards of city dwellers, and for those a large enough green space, there's always Gardens-in-a-Bag.
Merry Christmas Everybody!
2008-12-23 08:29:00 Sorry everyone but NBC have claimed copyright over the clip originally posted. As such I have replaced it with this alternative clip. Same song and artist.
Gardening in the Winter
2008-11-11 18:31:00 No doubt we always think of springtime as the time for gardening. The birds chirp and all that stuff, the days slowly get warmer and our sleeves shorter. After being pent up indoors hiding behind frosted windows all winter we like to stretch our legs, venture outdoors and play in the dirt while we tell ...
By: I Will Not Die
A Design Invention That Stands Gardening On Its Head: BOSKKE? Sky Planter
2008-11-10 12:50:00 Is that a real plant? I've heard of hanging plants before, but never saw suspended in the air upside down. It must be an optical illusion of some kind...
An Update At Last
2008-10-27 16:14:00 Well it has been an eternity since i felt like blogging or indeed that interested in the Web in general. Yes, my bi-annual dose of internet apathy has struck. This morning I find myself, again, unable to sleep and surfing the web looking at nothing in particular. So I decided I should ...
An Update At Last
2008-10-27 16:14:00 Well it has been an eternity since i felt like blogging or indeed that interested in the Web in general. Yes, my bi-annual dose of internet apathy has struck. This morning I find myself, again, unable to sleep and surfing the web looking at nothing in particular. So I decided I should ...
Forcing Bulbs Indoors
2008-09-24 10:00:00 Have you ever smelled paperwhites? I'm talking about the tiny little white daffodils that are also called paperwhite narcissus. They have such a lovely clean white scent that if you've smelled them once that's probably all I'd need to mention to get you to plant them.They're a bulb that's easy to "force" (or force to bloom) indoors and they're a winter bulb which is why I'm mentioning it now.If you buy a bag at the store (they should be popping up in stores about now) you can be guaranteed pretty little flowers in time for Christmas by following a few easy steps.1. Prepare ahead of time. The bulbs take approximately 8 weeks to bloom, give or take, so if you want a beautiful Christmas arrangement you need to be buying bulbs next month.2. Buy the bulbs--paperwhite narcissus or amaryllis are the easiest for the holidays. Those are my favorites for winter and the amaryllis can be very dramatic in pink, red, white or striped. I grew some last year you can see here.3. Plant...
By: Scribbit
Landscaping / Gardening in Sacramento Resource
2008-08-19 15:24:00 If you're one with a particularly green thumb, you should know that landscaping adds on an average 5% increased value to your home. I'm trying to find the basis for where I read this little nugget of information, but am unable to right now. So you'll just have to believe me. :) Landscaping, especially of the front yard adds curb appeal which will make people stop and notice. You want buyers to notice, don't you?One resource I found invaluable in Sacramento is Angela Pratt's website SacramentoGardening.com - not only does the site have valuable information about what to plant and prune in your garden this month, it also has a list of nurseries in Sacramento and coupons for purchases of plants.Remember, all gardening - like real estate - is local. So be sure to check out the site before you plant!
Organic Gardening Organic Foods Why Organic Online?
2008-07-18 17:32:00 The Latest Rage Is Organic Foods Organic Gardening -What People Want Online It seems more and mo0re that people want organic food, organic gardening products and anything for that matter that is truly organic. Over the coming weeks, I will be posting the top organic programs and products that people are looking for so that my ...
Keyhole Gardening
2008-07-17 02:33:00 Spotted this over on Monkeyfister, the keyhole garden. An innovative idea that could help you grow your own food. Some observations: I wonder if you could pry the cellphones and Ipods away from Americans and get a happy level of participation as shown in this video? Somehow, I sort of doubt it. The rusty cans was interesting, ...
Bonsai Gardening Secrets
2008-06-21 21:59:00 I’ve received an email from Tony P asking me for detailed advice on how to produce a nice looking bonsai. He is completely new at it and does not want to spend a lot of money on an old one and would prefer to do it himself. In his words tell me all ...
By: Bonsai Art
Gardening A Pastime Continued For Centuries
2008-06-09 04:50:00 Plants were here long before people or animals were. While earliest man supplemented his staple diet of animal meat with gathered nuts and berries, people of later ages learned to cultivate crops to feed more people more reliably, leading to the more diverse diet we enjoy today. Because man’s new knowledge of plant propagation freed a great deal of time he had previously used for survival, he began to find many more uses for plants. One of those uses, gardening, filled the need both for decoration and recreation. A prime example of this pursuit is seen in one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Gardening as a pastime continued throughout the centuries. Asian cultures spent hundreds of years developing plant-based cures for diseases. Plants and herbs formed the entire basis for Chinese medicine. In addition to utilizing plants for their curative properties, Asian cultures revered them for their beauty, as well. Both peonies and maples, found...
Gardening As Exercise - How to Lose Weight While Gardening
2008-06-08 16:00:00 Candee Stark from GoingAllTheWeigh.com shares an interesting way of exercise: How to Lose Weight While Gardening How to Lose Weight While Gardening Have you ever dreaded the idea of pulling weeds, planting a tree, or pushing a lawn mower around the yard?Does just thinking about it make you sweat? I am sure the majority of are nodding your heads in agreement. What I am about to suggest only takes a slight change in your thinking and a bit of planning and you can learn how to lose weight and get in better shape while gardening this year.For those of you that are already gardeners, you know that gardening is one of the best ways to get exercise More posts about "exercise" from Weight Loss ArticlesTime For Exercise - Top 10 Tips For Finding Time For ExerciseWeight loss and ExerciseExercise without equipment, flabbiness to happiness for freeExercise-what You Should KnowFoolproof Exercise Program because it involves all of the muscle groups in your body.Like I mentioned earlier, we...
By: Diet and Fitness
Gardening Can Mean Good Exercise [video]
2008-06-08 10:00:00 You may not realize it, but for every tulip bulb you plant and every leaf you rake, you're also burning calories. Related posts:How to Lose Weight While Gardening [link will be updated soon]6 Exercises to burn fat you need to knowExercises with treadmillExercises to flatten lower absExercises That Can Be Done Anytime, Anywhere Remember to subscribe my feed to get latest posts.
By: Diet and Fitness
Planning Space Helps Vegetable Gardening Be More Productive
2008-06-08 00:00:00 One outdoor hobby that can be rewarding is vegetable gardening and the type and amount of plants you tend can help with meal planning throughout the year. Different plants have different times to reach maturity and some will require different spacing, but they all require food, water and air. Making sure they receive all of ...
Free Gardening Tips EBook
2008-06-04 02:02:00 Hello John and all the crew here at the agency. Just dropping by to give everyone a heads up on a pretty darn good free offer if you are into gardening and so forth, this guy Mike goes by the name Good Ole Dirt Farmer and he is indeed a pretty sharp operator in the garden, not to mention he gives away the farm. Check him out if you have a moment: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/ap-p/?af=790303
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Tips For Organic Gardening
2008-06-02 22:43:00 Take a few tips from our recent garden video which features Lee O'Hara an avid gardener who lives within the city limits of Los Angeles. Watching Lee and his wife planting and....
Gardening On Salvia
2008-06-02 20:42:00 Everyday i go through diffirent gardening and landscaping blogs and garden news posts to share with the readers of landscape living. Doing this we hope to share gardening news and tips that could prove helpful in doing your landscape and gardening projects. Today I ran across a garden video on gardening on....
Gardening Services in Empuriabrava, Empuriabrava Gardeners.
2008-06-02 13:36:00 If your looking for a professional and reliable Gardening Service in Empuriabrava and the surrounding areas, Garden Maintenance can provide you with a one off tidy up, or a monthly contract to keep your garden in good order.Lawn MaintenancePlanting and pruningHard and soft landscapingWatering systemsGarden DesignProfessional service given at all times, no job too small, resaonable rates.Contact Garden Maintenance - E Mail Garden Maintenance - 690819400
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gardening 102
2008-05-31 04:21:00 These irises only bloom for a couple of weeks, but they sure are gorgeous. Our garden is full of them. Some are so heavy now that they are keeling over. Rajeev decapitated one of them gardening, and another while playing badminton, but the rest are surviving.Here's another surprise: a bleeding heart. I didn't know it was planted in a pot on the patio, until suddenly in March it burst out of the dirt and grew about a foot a week.
By: i am ahem
Gardening Leave: Chris Bower
2008-05-30 23:43:00 How often have you wished you could start fresh; have a new life? We all have at some point in our lives. This is a story of a forced start over. Unlike a straight redundancy ?gardening leave? is a quaint English expression that takes being laid off to a new level. As a Department Manager in a large Financial Establishment Chris Bower?s narrator is told to take six months gardening leave meaning he is on call if they should ever need him but they are not going to pay his salary except as a lump sum settlement at the end of the rest period. As a Manager he gets to keep the perks of the job, the company car for instance until the final severance.Bower?s book is written in the first person narration making it feel autobiographical and so we share in the recovery from the heart attack, the despair of being unemployed, the joy of discovering a lost hobby that becomes a salvation and the road to recovery. We laugh at the transition from Mercedes to Mini and feel the elation of new found l...
By: bollocks
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By: Get rich
World Naked Gardening Day
2008-05-27 22:14:00 Darn, missed the May 3rd celebration of World Naked Gardening Day again. I just can’t think about gardening when there’s still snow on the ground, I suppose. This incredible weather, though, prompted me to check the date - and I suppose as with many special days, celebrating late is better than not celebrating at all (I must remember that anniversaries aren’t included in that category - especially the first anniversary). Gardening in comfort, with no laundry to do and no tan lines - who can argue about the logic of all that? (today’s photos won’t be gettin’ posted! )
Modern Gardening Equipment
2008-05-27 00:00:00 The types and quality of equipment you use to take care of your plants not only have an effect on your plants’ health, but your own as well. Defective tools could cause damage to your plants, but it is worse if they are so uncomfortable to use that they give you blisters or a bad back. ...
Modern Gardening Equipment
2008-05-27 00:00:00 The types and quality of equipment you use to take care of your plants not only have an effect on your plants’ health, but your own as well. Defective tools could cause damage to your plants, but it is worse if they are so uncomfortable to use that they give you blisters or a bad back. ...
Forget-Me-Not Nursery in Indian, Alaska
2008-05-26 10:00:00 I have this tradition that started four or five years ago where each spring my mom and I head south to look for some spring seedlings. We're like pilgrims making our annual trip to Plant-Mecca and spring wouldn't be spring without the trip to Indian and Forget-Me-Not Nursery.Indian is a tiny town--maybe just a settlement, it's hard to tell--south of Anchorage along Cook Inlet. The drive down there is part of the prettiest, most scenic, drive in the entire world. I?ve seen pretty before and seriously, the stretch of road from Anchorage to Girdwood on a spring day is about as much beauty as you could expect in one place--just gorgeous. In fact, the trip is only partly about going to get some flowers, it's about enjoying the sunshine and the scenery and basking in the thought of the coming summer.But Mom couldn?t go this year (ironically she can?t go to Indian because she?s in India?ha!) so I got the treat of my sister Melissa to keep me company and we made a morning of it, enjoyi...
By: Scribbit
Spring Time And Gardening
2008-05-24 22:00:00 Its springtime and a young mans fancy is supposed to turn to the women. I guess I am not young anymore as mine has turned to gardening and making the yard look nicer with new plantings and rearranging previous plantings. I have been very slack on the vegetable garden and haven’t planted yet as I ...
Tips for Buying a Log Cabin for your Garden
2008-05-22 11:47:00 How much you pay for log cabins depends not just on the size of the building but also what types of logs have been used to build it. There are some, which have been built using handcrafted logs, which are quite expensive, and there are those that have been built from milled logs and these types of cabins are a lot less expensive.
By: ArticleRow.com
Top Ten Tips - Cheap Gardening
2008-05-22 06:00:00 Gardening is a fun, relaxing hobby for many, and the end result yields plenty of food, flowers and foliage. But it does not have to be expensive. Here are ways to save while gardening: Swap Plants With Neighbors - If you and your neighbors have plants that can easily be split and germinated again or extra ...
By: Tip Diva
Urban Agriculturalist: Professional Allotment Gardening
2008-05-15 08:02:00 After a brief hiatus, Urban Agriculturalist is back! Urban Agriculturalist is a series on the ways city and suburb dwellers use their land as a food resource. Last week, the New York Times featured...
By: Green Options
Solar Garden Lights - The Happy Marriage of Gardening and Renewable Energy
2008-05-14 04:46:00 Solar Garden Lights are becoming of age; their application is almost through puberty. Solar Powered Garden Lighting is reaching maturity. And no wonder first of all they are a sign of environmental awareness, and secondly solar lights are very convenient. In the old days we were struggling with the wiring in our garden, and especially grid connected systems in an outdoor environment are an accident waiting to happen if not maintained well. Placing additional lights was a good afternoons work, or you had to hire a specialized electrician to do it for you. Solar powered lights are an example of user friendliness, stick them in the ground, and place them wherever you need lighting. Do choose a spot that receives enough sunlight during the day, switch them on. Installation job done! The advantages of solar powered lights are obvious, no wiring, low or non-existent maintenance, and environmental friendly. They are especially the way to go if you are into organically or green gardening. ...
San Diego Flowers Delivery
2008-05-13 18:34:00 Nowadays, people find themselves living far away from their loved ones. It is not unusual to have a friend or family member living across the country or even on another continent. Online florists are a convenient way to send flower arrangements anywhere you need them to go. With such a wide variety of selections, using the Internet to order flowers gives you freedom of choice.
By: ArticleRow.com
Show Them the Back Door: By Guest Poster Meredith from "Like Merchant Ships
2008-05-13 10:00:00 Today I'm welcoming guest poster Meredith from Like Merchant Ships whose wonderful blog is full of helpful tips and support for frugal, economic living. We're swapping blogs for the day: she's posting here and I'm over at her place posting my own thoughts about creative frugal living . . . come on by and say hi!***Nothing makes me want to splurge more than spring nurseries full of gorgeous green plants! Luckily, it doesn't cost much to spruce up the back door using things we already own. Our back entrance looks so cold and sterile without color. (Speaking of which, why haven't I painted these doors yet?)This fall, I budgeted half an hour for a fast-and-dirty transformation. I bought two mums ($8 total), washed the doormats, swept, and consolidated the half-dead plants from around the house. I moved the cherry tomato from the yard so it could anchor the group of smaller pots. I also angled the grill to break up the straight line of the house. I consolidated the outdoor toys in ...
By: Scribbit
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